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A Sketch of the Character of Mr. Hume , and Diary of a Journey from Morpeth to Bath , 23 April - 1 May 1776 (review)

A Sketch of the Character of Mr. Hume , and Diary of a Journey from Morpeth to Bath , 23 April -... A Sketch of the Character of Mr. Hume, and Diary of a Journey from Morpeth to Bath, 23 April - 1 May 1776, by John Home. Edited by David Fate Norton. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1976. 29 pp. £6 or $10.50. In 1776 Hume set out, with mitigated scepticism, on his last journey in search of a cure for his mortal illness. He was intercepted and joined by John Home (1722-1808) , the clerical cousin who had been dedicatee of the Four Disser- tations and is best known to library cataloguers as the "author of Douglas" . Home's short, untitled, journal of part of this journey forms the more interesting half of Professor Norton's little booklet. Home had wanted to publish the journal after the philosopher's death, but the nephew David Hume demurred. text with his Life of Home. The veto was lifted in 1822, In the absence of the MS, when the Scots author Henry Mackenzie published an edited Norton has copied Mackenzie's version carefully, except to omit an excerpt from a letter from Adam Ferguson which Home had prefixed to his account, and to which the opening sen- tence makes an otherwise puzzling reference. The MSS http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

A Sketch of the Character of Mr. Hume , and Diary of a Journey from Morpeth to Bath , 23 April - 1 May 1776 (review)

Stewart, M. A. (Michael Alexander)
Hume Studies , Volume 4 (2) – Jan 26, 1978
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A Sketch of the Character of Mr. Hume, and Diary of a Journey from Morpeth to Bath, 23 April - 1 May 1776, by John Home. Edited by David Fate Norton. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1976. 29 pp. £6 or $10.50. In 1776 Hume set out, with mitigated scepticism, on his last journey in search of a cure for his mortal illness. He was intercepted and joined by John Home (1722-1808) , the clerical cousin who had been dedicatee of the Four Disser- tations and is best known to library cataloguers as the "author of Douglas" . Home's short, untitled, journal of part of this journey forms the more interesting half of Professor Norton's little booklet. Home had wanted to publish the journal after the philosopher's death, but the nephew David Hume demurred. text with his Life of Home. The veto was lifted in 1822, In the absence of the MS, when the Scots author Henry Mackenzie published an edited Norton has copied Mackenzie's version carefully, except to omit an excerpt from a letter from Adam Ferguson which Home had prefixed to his account, and to which the opening sen- tence makes an otherwise puzzling reference. The MSS

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